SHILLONG: Even as family members of the tragedy-hit miners wait for the bodies of their loved ones to be retrieved, Chief Minister Conrad Sangma said bringing out the dead bodies was an impossible task.
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the Meghalaya Day programme on Monday, he said, “It is becoming a next to impossible task to bring out the bodies. We decided to suspend the operation of trying to take it out as it is really not working out.”
He added that the government has asked the medical department for their advice and observations as well as Navy and the administration, forensic department.
“The report that has come to us is that even if we try to bring out the body. The fact that they are trying to bring it out, it is disintegrating,” Sangma said.
Asked on whether the government will likely call off the operation at Ksan, he said the government had not yet decided on that while inputs were being gathered from the organisations working on the operation.
“It won’t be appropriate for me to mention or take a call or say anything, but after getting report from ground zero then we will take a call on it,” he said.